Dr. Vanessa Johnston
Details
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College: Graduate School of Business & Law
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Department: Graduate School of Business & Law
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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vanessa.johnston@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8521-1787
About
Vanessa is a Senior Lecturer with the RMIT University Graduate School of Business and Law. She holds Bachelors, Masters, and PhD qualifications in Law and is a lawyer admitted to practice in Victorian and federal jurisdictions. She gained almost 10 years professional legal experience in the areas of property, commercial, and tax law, before becoming an Academic in 2015. She joined RMIT at the start of 2020. Vanessa’s key area of research expertise is climate change, and its relationship with discrete issues of real property and transport.
Research fields
- 4802 Environmental and resources law
- 4806 Private law and civil obligations
- 4803 International and comparative law
- 3303 Design
- 3304 Urban and regional planning
- 4104 Environmental management
- 4203 Health services and systems
Teaching interests
Vanessa has experience teaching compulsory, Priestley, and elective law courses into Law Programs at AQF7-9 (Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Law(Hons), Masters of Law, Juris Doctor). She regularly teaches property law, Introductory/Foundation law courses, and climate change.
Teaching Awards / Grants
2024 - RMIT College of Business & Law Scholarship of Learning & Teaching (grant recipient)
2023 - RMIT College of Business & Law L&T Impact Award (nomination)
2017 - Monash University Innovation Teaching Award (winner)
Research interests
Vanessa’s current research projects examine how climate change is affecting real property law in Australia, and separately how regulation can contribute towards improving the sustainability of Australia’s transport sector, including by carbon pricing and the promotion of sustainable transport. She has produced expert reports for the Victorian Government about regulatory issues affecting road users in the context of sustainable transport.
Keywords:
Climate Change regulation
Real Property Law
Environmental and Planning Law
Sustainable Transport
Comparative Law
